Despite limited diplomatic achievements this year, China finds the Middle East’s perennial conflicts and tensions difficult to navigate. Read it here.

Iran is now a threshold nuclear state. The White House is beginning to accept this reality. Read it here.

The United States has tended to think about this crucial region too little and too late. But a strategic opportunity still exists. Read it here.

The war in Ukraine offers Kim a fresh example of how hostile great powers prey on non-nuclear-armed countries. Read it here.

In comments given to the National Interest, former Trump National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien explained that the U.S. Air Force needs 300-400 B-21 Raider stealth bombers considering the growing threat from China's rising military might. Read it here.